Spring-clip.



No. 742,893. PATENTED NOV. s, 1903.

G. W. M GILL. SPRING CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1903.

N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

WITNESSES:

PATBNTED NOV. 3, 1903.

G. W. MGGILL.

SPRING CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27. 1903. no MODEL. I 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR UNITED STATES Patented November 3, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SPRING-CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,893, dated November 3, 1903. Application filed June 27, 1903. Serial No. 163,342. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MCGILL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Riverdale-on-Hudson, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Clips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a novel, simple, and effective spring-clip fashioned from a single piece of wire of suitable size and temper, susceptible of being economically made, and which is adapted to hold sheets of paper and such like articles.

The novel features of the clip consist in the means provided it for the ready and easy entrance therein of such papers and means additional to the resilience of its clamping parts for obstructing their removal therefrom, the application of the latter being optional with the user, according to the degree of security with which he desires to clip such papers, the ready means for entering papers in the clip being provided by having the inner fold of the wire in the base of its frame projeoting outwardly therefrom, providing it a receiving-lip, and the means additional to the clamping resilience of the clip provided for obstructing the removal of such papers consisting in one or both terminals of the wire composing the clip being projected outwardly from the plane of its frame in manner to en- 'gage with one or both surfaces of the clipped papers.

' In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and wherein similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts, all the figures represent the device in side elevation and with the terminals of the wire composing it seated in its frame in varying positions, Figure 1 showing the terminal of the inner free end of the wire rounded and resting beneath the fold forming the top of the clip-frame and in the same plane therewith and the terminal of the outer free end of the wire seated near its outer center and proj ecting outward from the frame in the same direction with its receiving-lip. Fig. 2 isa similar view, excepting that the outer free end of the wireis shown pin-pointed and projecting outwardly from the clip-frame beneath a side fold therein, providinga guard-shoulderabov'e it. Fig. 3 shows the clip frame having a uniform width with the terminal of the outer end of the wire seated near the top of the frame and in the same plane with the frame and the terminal of the inner end of the wire seated near the longitudinal center of the frame and projecting outwardly therefrom in a direction opposite to that of its receiving-lip. In Fig. 4. the frame of the clip has the same uniform width shown in Fig. 3, with both terminals of the wire seated near its longitudinal center and projecting outwardly respectively from opposite sides of the frame. Fig. 5 shows the device constructed as shown in Fig. 1 and applied in holding papers. Fig. 6 also shows the clip-frame of uniform width, with the terminal of its inner wire seated beneath and adjacent to the fold forming the top of the frame and the terminal of its outer wire seated near the outer center of the frame and projecting outwardly therefrom, the frame being unprovided with any projecting or receiving lip. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6, showing both terminals of the wire seated near the center of the frame and projecting outwardly therefrom in the same direction; and Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the terminals of the wire projecting in opposite directions. Fig. 9 shows the frame having an angular formation, the base of the angle being rounded or arched and having the free end of its inner wire correspondingly arched and seated beneath and adjacent to it, with the terminal of the outer wire resting near the outside center of the frame and projecting outwardly therefrom in a direction opposite to that of its receivinglip and with the fold of the wire forming the outer base of the frame providing an eye below such base. Fig. 10 is a view similar to Fig. 9, but showing the frame-base unprovided with the eye terminal shown in Fig. 9 and showing a modified folding of the free end of its inner wire; and Fig. 11 shows the clipframe of uniform width, with its outer wire terminating in an eye seated on a line with the top of the frame and in the same plane therewith and its inner wire terminating near the inner center of the frame, with its terminal occupying the same plane as the frame, and the receiving-lip of the device alone projec'ting outwardly therefrom. Fig. 12 is a view similar to Fig. 1, excepting that the wire of the frame is shown provided with a bulbous-shaped terminal, and the terminal of the outer wire is shown seated in the same plane with the frame. Fig. 13 is a view similar to Fig. 11, excepting that the frame of the clip is provided an angular configuration. Fig. 14 also shows the device having an angular configuration and having both terminals of the wire composing it seated immediately below the hooped top of the frame and on the same line and in the same plane with the frame, and Fig. 15 presents a similar construction of the device embodied in a frame of uniform width.

The clip is provided by folding the wire blank composing it near its center, as at 1, and folding those parts of the blank depending from such upper part in opposite directions around each other below such upper part, as at 2 3, providing the clip its body part or frame, the upper half of which is marked in the drawings A and the lower half B, that part of the wire forming the upper part of the frame being single and that part formingits lower part being double, with the free endst 5 of the blank projecting upwardly from such doubled part and seated one end within the frame and the other end outside of it. To provide the clip so constructed with the ready means for entering papers therein, which forms one feature of its improved construction, the inner fold 2 of its frame-wire is bent out from the plane of the frame, providing it the outwardly-curving receiving-lip 0. Papers to be entered in the clip are placed against the lower fold 3 of its frame and moved up against the lip O, the outwardly-projecting angle or curve of which lifts it over the edges of the papers, whereupon the latter may be pressed up in the clip and against its inner top without hindrance and in which position the resilience of the folds of the wire will retain them. To provide the clip so constructed with the extra means or means additional to its resilience for obstructing the unintentional removal of papers from it, and which forms the other feature of its improved construction, one or both of the terminals of the wire blank composing the clip are bent upwardly and outwardly from the plane of the clip-frame and set adjacent to the side'wires thereof, providing the clip the projecting points or edges (1 d, which bear upon and engage with the surface of the papers entered in the clip. As these points project upwardly in the clip-frame or toward its top, they ofier no obstruction to the entrance of the papers therein, such entrance being in similar direction; but in withdrawing the papers without such points being firstlifted,the pulling strain being in opposite direction and against the sharp hearing or engaging parts of such points, the latter will puncture the surface of the paper and cause the obstruction to its unintentional removal referred to. This feature of the clip will be found serviceable in securing unsealed matter passing through the mails.

The normal application of the clip constructed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, &c., wherein one or both terminals of its construction wire is projected toward one or both surfaces of thef'papers entered in the clip, will bring into practice the paper-retaining function of such terminal projection, while thevnormal application of a clip constructed as shown in Figs. 4:, 9, and 10, wherein one or both terminals of its construction Wire is projected away from the surface of the clipped paper, will avoid the function of such terminal projection, and the latter can only come into practice by inserting the papers between the projecting side of the receiving-lip and the frame proper, which will further increase the paper-retaining feature of the device by reason of the projecting end of the receiving-lip also bearing against the clipped papers. In Fig. 6, wherein the projecting receiving-lip is dispensed with, the paper-retaining function of the projecting terminal may be put in practice or dispensed with,accord ing to which side of the clip the papers are entered. In the clip constructed as shown in Fig. 7 the entrance of the papers on either side of it will bring one of the projecting terminals of the wire into practice. In the construction shown in Figs. 11 to 15, inclusive, the clip is shown havingits projecting receiving-lip feature and without the terminals of its construction-wire blank projecting from the plane of its frame.

What I claim herein as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a spring-clip of the character herein described, the inner fold of the doubled wire forming the clip-frame bent to project outwardly from the plane of such frame and provide the clip a projecting receiving-lip adapted. to facilitate the entrance of papers in the clip.

2. In a spring-clip of the character herein described, the inner fold of the doubled wire forming the clip-frame bent to project outward 1y from the plane of such frame and provide the clip a projecting receiving-lip adapt ed to facilitate the entrance of papers in the clip, and having one terminal of the wire composing the clip projecting outwardly from the plane of its frame providing ita projecting point adapted to bear againstand engage with the surface of papers entered therein,

and obstruct their unintentional removal from the clip.

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3. A spring-clip of the character herein described, and wherein no part of the wire composing itis crossed upon another part thereof, one of the free terminals of such wire bent in manner to project outwardly from the plane of the frame of the clip and set adjacent to, the side wires therein, in manner to provide the clip a free point adapted to bear against and engage with the surface of articles entered in the clip and obstruct their unintentional removal therefrom.

4. A spring-clip of the character herein described, and wherein no part of the wire composing it is crossed, both terminals of such wire bent in manner to project from the plane occupied by the frame of the clip and set adjacent to the sides thereof in manner to provide the clip thereat free points adapted to bear upon and engage with the surfaces of articles entered in the clip and obstruct their unintentional removal therefrom.

5. A spring-clip of the character herein described, wherein no part of the wire compos- 15 ing it is crossed, both terminals of such wire bent in manner to project outwardly from the plane of the clip in opposite directions and set adjacent to the sides of the clip in manner to provide it thereat with two free points adapted to bear upon and engage with the opposite surfaces of articles entered in the clip and prevent their unintentional removal therefrom.

Signed at 'Riverdale-on -Hudson, in the countyof New York and State of New York, this 15th day of August, A. D. 1891.

GEORGE W. MCGILL. Witnesses:

W. HARRY MoGILL, M. L. H. MOGILL. 

